How You Can Find More Clients with Pension Risk Transfer

Our sales team talks with a lot of advisors over the course of our travels. Most conversations center around the need to grow the advisor’s business.

As I’ve discussed before, part of The Go-Giver philosophy is the Law of Compensation: Your income is determined by how many people you serve and how well you serve them. Deploying this law through pension risk transfer sales can help you drive your firm’s revenue and increase the number of people you serve.

Pension risk transfers will be a significant market over the next decade. For advisors, it’s a great way to meet new prospective clients through a business contact. It opens the door to a group of employees with the approval of the employee’s human resource department or company’s leadership. What a great introduction to new people!

Companies of all sizes have pension liabilities that are at risk of hurting the enterprise. Pension plans carry longevity risk for the plan sponsors, interest rate risk for the pension fund managers and investment committee, and cost increases that concern C-suite leaders. When working on pension risk transfers, you can reduce or eliminate several problems for the employer:

Reduce a liability that shows up on the balance sheet (if not fully funded)

Avoid the increasing cost of administering the pension plan in the future

Shift the risk of employees living longer than funds can support payments

Pension risk transfers create a win-win-win scenario for the advisor, the employer and the employees. The employees gain the advantage of talking to a retirement expert on-site, which is viewed as an added benefit at no cost to the employer. The employer gains the ability to transfer their risk to an insurance carrier, and eliminate or reduce the risks to their balance sheet and cost structure of maintaining a pension plan. The advisor wins by helping more people and serving them better, which is the basis of the Law of Compensation.

Winning Strategy

Help more people and help them with their most complex problem – retirement. You can do both by working in the pension risk transfer market.

Craving More?

Watch the replay of our webinar where we talk how pension risk transfers can be an effective tool for defined benefit plan sponsors seeking solutions for rising costs and longevity risk.

About the Author

Mike McGlothlin is a tireless advocate for the retirement planning industry. As executive vice president of retirement at Ash Brokerage, he heads a team providing income planning solutions focused on longevity and efficiency. He’s also a thought leader who provides guidance and assistance for advisors and broker-dealers navigating marketplace and regulatory changes. You can find a collection of his blog posts in his book, “Above the Clouds … Winning Strategies from 30,000 Feet.”